The memo the company sent Tuesday highlighted what Twitter users can otherwise do to strengthen their account security, most of which are standard industry procedures: Changing passwords and making them long and complicated; reducing the number of people with access to an account; and upping corporate email security to prevent an attack known as spear-phishing.

But suggesting setting aside a computer for the use of a single website is a fairly onerous request, and one that fails to recognize the way modern, distributed newsrooms typically function.

“This helps keep your Twitter password from being spread around,” read the memo. “Don’t use this computer to read email or surf the web, to reduce the chances of malware infection.”

Yeah, or … Twitter could step up its own security measures. No doubt the company has dragged its feet on two-factor authentication because it’s complicated to employ with many people using the same account.

But most news organizations couldn’t financially justify having a single computer dedicated just to Twitter.

Setting aside one machine for Twitter also nullifies one of the key value propositions of the service: immediacy. If only a single computer is supposed to access the account, news organizations will have to hope that computer is nearby when news breaks.

That issue of immediacy is also what may hamper the implementation of other checks and balances. The company could employ an option that requires tweets to be approved by a second party attached to the account. Or it could hold the tweet in a timed review period before it hits the stream.

But that slows the 99.99% of the time the information is correct. And news organizations fight and claw to be first to a story.

Of course, whether the majority of users actually notice or care whether one organization tweets something 30 seconds before their competitor is the subject for another day.